LAMARCK-DARWIN 1809-2009. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF EVOLUTIONISM

In 1809, Lamarck publishes Philosophie zoologique and Darwin is born. These two independent events will mingle and have a great importance fifty years after, in 1859, with the publication of The Origin of Species.Theory of Evolution has become a theory that goes beyond the original aim of both the French and the Englishmen. Evolutionism has become a term that refers to different phenomena, in distinct domains, biological, social, cultural, philosophical and metascientific.A large group of scientist and philosophers, with the impulse of the Grupo Bogotá de Pensamiento Evolucionista, will joint their efforts to study 200 years of evolutionism as a celebration of the years 1809 and 1859. A selection of the communications will be published.LAMARCK-DARWIN 1809-2009. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF EVOLUTIONISM will take place in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, México, from September 28 to October 2, 2009.The meeting will include a large number of invited specialists. Facilities will be given for the assistance of scholars and students of different Universities and countries.Information:Jorge Martínez Contreras, UAM Univ., Mexico: pascalo696@mac.comAura Ponce de León, CEFPSVLT Research Center, Mexico: auraponce@yahoo.comAralisa Shedden, UV Univ., Xalapa: arazitl@gmail.com